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With a line like this coming out of Will Ferrell and Paul McCartney‘s mouths, the Saturday Night Live cast almost didn’t stand a chance.
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On Saturday night (May 16), SNL musical guest McCartney put his comedic timing to the test starring as an auto mechanic alongside body shop co-workers Will Ferrell and Marcello Hernández in the live sketch “Mechanics.” The three are a trio of guys telling a primed to be taken advantage of couple (Mikey Day, Ashley Padilla) what’s allegedly wrong with their car during what was supposed to just be a routine oil change.
“And now… WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TALKING TO A MECHANIC,” an opening slate says onscreen ahead of Ferrell leading the way, speaking words that pass right through the blank stares of Day and Padilla — some nonsense that somehow involves a “dong rod gasket” that’s Swiss cheese, Apple Bottom jeans with the boots with the fur (that’s a Flo Rida reference, folks) and a shot “sprog box.”
Hernández hops in with support here, scratching oil off his hands on his backside before offering a handshake, a frantic description of what he saw under the hood en español, and awfully sexual sounds that are supposedly similar to the concerning noises he heard the car emit.
They recommend getting it fixed immediately and coming back every six days. Or just replacing all the parts. “Your oil is fine,” Ferrell assures them. “We keep the oil. We rebuild everything around it.”
When the cost of this all sounds a bit much, chief mechanic Nigel (McCartney) walks in to confirm the diagnosis and give them a payment plan option.
“Listen, your tipsy-whipsies are all dangly-doodly, and the spriggly-wiggly’s gone crumpet,” McCartney says, letting loose a high-pitched squeal and pointing out, “Plus, the steering wheel’s on the wrong bloody side.”
The room mostly keeps a straight face up until Ferrell and McCartney each calmly explain the one way out of this unexpected debt: “You can pay in ass.”
Watch SNL‘s “Mechanics” to see how it all plays out below. McCartney also appeared in Ferrell’s monologue and performed three songs on Saturday during his fifth time as musical guest on the late-night sketch comedy show.
The Michael Jackson biopic Michael has grossed $621.9 million worldwide since its release on April 24, according to boxofficemojo.com. Michael already ranks No. 2 on Billboard’s list of music biopics with the highest worldwide grosses.
Jackson has a long history of ranking No. 1 on lists, dating back to The Jackson 5 landing their first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with “I Want You Back” in 1970, but that won’t be an easy task in this case. The all-time top-grossing music biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, grossed $910.8 million worldwide. Can Michael close that $288.9 million gap and overtake the Freddie Mercury biopic? It grossed $44.5 million in the past week. At this point, it looks like Bohemian Rhapsody‘s position is secure.
According to Box Office Mojo figures, international ticket sales account for nearly 60% of Michael‘s worldwide boxoffice total to date. International is responsible for 57.6% of the boxoffice tally, with the other 42.4% coming from the U.S. and Canada.
Of note: Graham King, who co-produced Michael with longtime Jackson associates John Branca and John McClain, also co-produced Bohemian Rhapsody and a third music biopic on this list, Jersey Boys, the story of the Four Seasons.
These are the highest-grossing biopics of musicians in terms of worldwide box office. We didn’t include a few high-grossing films about real-life music personalities because the subjects are not well-known music stars in their own right. These include The Sound of Music (which tells the story of Maria von Trapp and the Trapp Family Singers); Green Book (which deals with a road trip taken by pianist and composer Don Shirley); Florence Foster Jenkins (about an heiress and hopelessly untalented soprano by that name); and Music of the Heart (about violinist and music educator Roberta Guaspari). Meryl Streep starred in the latter two films.
Here are the 25 biopics of music stars with the highest worldwide grosses.
Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide scores a third week atop the Billboard 200 (dated May 23), making it the first rock album with three weeks at No. 1 in more than a decade. The last rock set with as many weeks at No. 1 was Mumford & Sons’ Babel, with five, nonconsecutively, in 2012-13.
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The last rock set by a soloist to spend at least three weeks at No. 1 was Jack Johnson’s Sleep Through the Static, with three total in 2008. Rock albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart.
The Great Divide earned 132,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending May 14 (down 19%), according to Luminate.
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, CORTIS clocks its first top 10 as GREENGREEN debuts at No. 3, while Chris Brown lands his 13th top 10 as BROWN bows at No. 7.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 23, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 19. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of The Great Divide’s 132,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 109,000 (down 20%, equaling 111.46 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it spends a third week at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 22,000 (down 85%; it holds at No. 2 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise the remainder (up 18%).
Ella Langley’s former leader Dandelion is a non-mover at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 100,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).
CORTIS earns its first top 10 with the No. 3 debut of GREENGREEN, starting with 87,000 equivalent album units, the group’s best week by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 81,500 (the quintet’s best sales week; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 5,500 (equaling 5.91 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. First-week album sales were bolstered by the set’s availability across more than 20 physical variants on CD and vinyl, all containing collectible items such as photocards and stickers, with some items randomized.
GREENGREEN was preceded by the act’s first Pop Airplay hit, “REDRED,” which climbed 31-30 (a new peak) on the latest chart (dated May 23).
CORTIS charted one earlier album on the Billboard 200, COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES, which peaked at No. 15 last year.
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping I’m the Problem is steady at No. 4 on the latest Billboard 200 with 85,000 equivalent album units earned (up 2%).
Michael Jackson has the Nos. 5 and 6 albums, as his former No. 1 Thriller is steady at No. 5 (66,000 equivalent album units, up 6%) and Number Ones is also stationary at No. 6 (just more than 65,000, up 6%). Both titles continue to bask in the glow of the success of the Michael biopic film.
Chris Brown’s new studio effort, BROWN, bows at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, earning the singer-songwriter his 13th top 10-charted project. The new set launches with 65,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 60,000 (equaling 60.31 million on-demand official streams of the sets tracks; it debuts at No. 4 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 5,000 (it debuts at No. 19 on Top Album Sales, and was only available to purchase as a digital download) and TEA units comprise the remainder.
The BROWN album was preceded by four hits on the Hot R&B Songs chart: “Holy Blindfold” (No. 8), “It Depends,” featuring Bryson Tiller (No. 3), “Obvious” (No. 5) and “Fallin’,” featuring Leon Thomas (No. 12). All four also reached the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
Brown’s co-headlining stadium tour with Usher launches June 26 at Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High and continues through Dec. 12 at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium.
Rounding out the rest of the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200: BTS’s former leader ARIRANG (falling 7-8 with 44,000 equivalent album units, down 10%), Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time (holding at No. 9 with 41,000, up 3%) and Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving (8-10 with nearly 41,000, down 3%).
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
After two weeks trailing The Devil Wears Prada 2, the Michael Jackson biopic Michael reclaimed the No. 1 spot at the North American box office with $26.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday (May 17).
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The Lionsgate movie is in rarefied territory, having brought in $703.9 million worldwide and counting. It still has a way to go to surpass the current reigning champion of musical biopics: Bohemian Rhapsody. The Queen movie grossed over $910.8 million worldwide.
There were also several newcomers in the mix this weekend, including the relationship horror movie Obsession, the Guy Ritchie action pic In the Grey and the revenge saga Is God Is, but the holdovers continued to draw the largest crowds. The power dynamics are poised to shift when Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters next weekend.
Disney and 20th Century Studios’ The Devil Wears Prada 2 took second place in its third weekend with $18 million, bringing its domestic total to $175.9 million and worldwide earnings to $546.2 million.
Obsession topped the newcomers, exceeding expectations with an estimated $16.1 million from 2,615 theaters. YouTube breakout Curry Barker wrote and directed the thriller in which a hopeless romantic gets more than he bargained for when his crush returns his affections. The film received positive reviews from both critics (94% on Rotten Tomatoes) and audiences (A- CinemaScore). Perhaps more notable is that Barker made the film for $750,000. Focus Features acquired it out of the Toronto International Film Festival last fall for around $15 million.
Lisa Bunnell, president of domestic distribution for Focus Features, attributed some of Obsession’s success to audiences craving fresh, original voices at the movies. It’s also getting an infusion by word-of-mouth, with younger audiences making plans to go back with friends. Horror movies don’t often get CinemaScores in the A- range, but Obsession is in good company with another recent hit: Weapons.
“I’m expecting a really strong holdover,” Bunnell said.
Fourth place at the box office this weekend went to Mortal Kombat II, which fell 65% in its second weekend to $13.4 million in domestic ticket sales. Globally, it has made $101.2 million from 80 markets.
Amazon MGM Studios had three movies in the top 10, including The Sheep Detectives in fifth place, Project Hail Mary in seventh place and Is God Is rounding out the top 10.
The Sheep Detectives enjoyed a slim 33% drop from its first weekend, taking in an additional $10.2 million and bringing its running total to $30.5 million. Project Hail Mary, which is now available to rent or buy at home, brought in another $3.4 million in its ninth weekend in theaters. Is God Is, Aleshea Harris’s adaptation of her Obie-winning play about twin sisters (Kara Young and Mallori Johnson) on a quest to find and kill their abusive father made $2.2 million in its first weekend in theaters. It has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Meanwhile, the action caper In the Grey, released by Black Bear, made $3 million from 2,018 locations. Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza González star in the film about a team of elite operatives on an impossible mission. It currently carries a 44% on Rotten Tomatoes and a B CinemaScore.
There were also several high-profile re-releases in theaters this weekend, including Top Gun, which made $3.1 million, and Shrek, which earned $1.3 million.
Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends for Comscore, noted that Prada, Michael and Top Gun all making the top 10 show “nostalgia is on full display.”
“What’s old is new again and audiences clearly love it,” he said.
Will Ferrell’s much-anticipated monologue for his return as SNL host was hijacked by two music stars: Paul McCartney and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith.
First up: Chili Peppers’ Smith took the stage posing as Ferrell Saturday night (May 16), in a nod to the longtime consensus that Smith and Ferrell are celebrity lookalikes. (More than decade ago, the two faced their match in a funny drum-off put together by Jimmy Fallon.)
Saturday night, the actual drummer kicked off Ferrell’s monologue introduced to the crowd as Ferrell.
“I’m thrilled to be back here hosting Saturday Night Live. Thrilled!” Smith (as Ferrell) announced, bringing back the oft-joked about bit that he’s the comedian’s doppelgänger.
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“I was a cast member here for seven years, and now I’m hosting for the sixth time. Amazing! It really feels like coming home,” he said before being intercepted by the actual host of SNL‘s Season 51 season finale, Will Ferrell himself: “Hey! Excuse me! What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
“Don’t clap for him. Don’t. He’s a bad guy. God. I’m sorry. That was weird, right?” Ferrell quipped of the musician, who’d appear again later in the episode supporting musical guest Paul McCartney on drums.
“You know what? Let’s just do a hard reset, all right?” Ferrell decided, commenting that things just didn’t feel right since “Chad Smith took the wind out of my sails.”
Opting to take questions from the audience at this point, Ferrell lands on none other than Paul McCartney — and the second half of his monologue is essentially stolen by the famed Beatle, who keeps the game going by insisting Will Ferrell is actually Chad Smith. McCartney takes the stage for the last couple minutes of the monologue time slot, glowing in the applause for the extensive list of hit songs he’s penned (reminding the night’s host he forgot to mention “Penny Lane”), and insisting Ferrell better get his butt behind the drum set.
Watch Ferrell’s May 16 SNL monologue, co-starring McCartney and Smith, below. Tune into McCartney’s trio of performance from the night here — those included “Days We Left Behind,” “Band on the Run” and “Coming Up.”
Megan Moroney, who is the most nominated artist for tonight’s (May 17) Academy of Country Music Awards with nine nominations, will be a no show at the Las Vegas ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. But she has a very good reason.
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As Moroney posted on social media Sunday morning, she is the maid of honor at her best friend’s wedding. Longtime fans of Moroney’s are already familiar with her friend, Natalie, who was the subject of her 2021 song “Wonder.” In that tune, Moroney is giving advice to a friend who is in the throes of a relationship with a man who keeps her on edge, not calling when he says he will and not treating her how she deserves.
Moroney then tells her friend that maybe he’s not the right guy for her and, even though starting over is scary, maybe she should wait for the one who treats her with respect, shows up when he says he will and “won’t make you wonder” if he loves her. Looks like Natalie took Moroney’s advice.
“I’m so honored to be nominated tonight at @acmawards & I’m rooting on all my friends from afar! I’m out of the country this week on MOH duty to get my bestie married,” the singer shared with fans on Instagram midday on Sunday, tagging Natalie on a snapshot of the pair wearing “Bridesmaid” and “Bride” sweatsuits.
It’s quite a busy time for Moroney. Tonight she’s up for the coveted entertainer of the year award, as well as eight other awards, including female artist of the year and artist-songwriter of the year.
Then later this month, Moroney kicks off her Cloud 9 arena headlining tour in Columbus, Ohio, on May 29. The tour takes its name from Moroney’s February album that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 all-genre albums chart. The album has already spawned the top 10 Country Airplay chart hits “Beautiful Things” and “6 Months Later,” which is up for single of the year tonight.
The ACM Awards will stream live on Amazon’s Prime Video starting at 8 p.m. ET.
See Moroney’s announcement via Instagram Stories here.
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This summer, Ariana Grande goes on the Eternal Sunshine Tour throughout the United States, with nearly 30 dates starting Saturday, June 6 at Oakland Arena in Oakland, Calif. The U.S. portion of the tour ends at United Center in Chicago on Thursday, Aug. 6. Afterwards, Miss Grande travels to the United Kingdom for an 10-day residency at the O2 Arena in London.
The tour is in support of her latest two albums, Eternal Sunshine from 2024 and Petal, which drops on Friday, July 31.
Tickets to the tour first went on sale through Live Nation and Ticketmaster, while the retailer’s Face Value Exchange program is an option for fans to resell tickets.
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Ariana Grande ‘Eternal Sunshine’ Tour 2026 Dates
- June 6: Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA (Buy tickets online here)
- June 9: Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA (Buy tickets online here)
- June 10: Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA (Buy tickets online here)
- June 13: Crypto Arena in Los Angeles, CA (Buy tickets online here)
- June 14: Crypto Arena in Los Angeles, CA (Buy tickets online here)
- June 17: Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA (Buy tickets online here)
- June 19: Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA (Buy tickets online here)
- June 20: Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA (Buy tickets online here)
- June 24: Moody Center in Austin, TX (Buy tickets online here)
- June 26: Moody Center in Austin, TX (Buy tickets online here)
- June 27: Moody Center in Austin, TX (Buy tickets online here)
- June 30: Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, FL (Buy tickets online here)
- July 2: Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, FL (Buy tickets online here)
- July 3: Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, FL (Buy tickets online here)
- July 6: State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA (Buy tickets online here)
- July 8: State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA (Buy tickets online here)
- July 9: State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA (Buy tickets online here)
- July 12: Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY (Buy tickets online here)
- July 13: Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY (Buy tickets online here)
- July 16: Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY (Buy tickets online here)
- July 18: Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY (Buy tickets online here)
- July 19: Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY (Buy tickets online here)
- July 22: TD Garden in Boston, MA (Buy tickets online here)
- July 24: TD Garden in Boston, MA (Buy tickets online here)
- July 25: TD Garden in Boston, MA (Buy tickets online here)
- Aug. 3: United Center in Chicago, IL (Buy tickets online here)
- Aug. 5: United Center in Chicago, IL (Buy tickets online here)
- Aug. 6: United Center in Chicago, IL (Buy tickets online here)
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The 61st Academy of Country Music Awards, a ceremony celebrating excellence in the music genre, takes place with a star-studded affair this Sunday. The highly-anticipated award show livestreams on May 17, at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
In addition, Billboard chart-topper Shania Twain is set to host, while country stars Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Riley Green are performing throughout the night.
How to Watch the 2026 ACM Awards at a Glance:
- Date: May 17
- Time: 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT
- Streaming: Prime Video
The nominees this year feature well-known names, like Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Chris Stapleton, Morgan Wallen, Lainey Wilson, Kelsea Ballerini, Miranda Lambert and many others.
Below, we’ll be showing you how you can tune into the 2026 ACM Awards livestream.
How to Watch the 2026 ACM Awards Online
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Ahead of the show, Amazon Music exclusively broadcasts the official red carpet livestream via the Amazon Music app at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. Country Heat Weekly’s Kelly Sutton and Amber Anderson are hosting the preshow, while viewers can expect in-depth interviews with some of the night’s biggest stars.
Meanwhile, you can actually buy tickets to attend the ACM Awards in Las Vegas. Tickets to the ceremony are available at AXS.com, with prices starting as low as $131.41, as of this writing.
In 2026, women dominated the nominees list, racking up a number of nominations, including Megan Moroney, who leads with nine noms, followed by Miranda Lambert with eight and Ella Langley and Lainey Wilson with seven each. This marks the second year in a row that female solo acts have led the nominations. This year’s awards also feature an impressive list of presenters, with big names in the music biz like Keith Urban, Michael Bublé, Shaboozy, Ashley McBryde and others.
Following the livestream, you can catch the full broadcast on Prime Video the following day starting Monday, May 18, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
The ACM Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Eldridge Industries and Billboard parent company Penske Media.
